Social Science Emigration & Immigration
A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2005
- Category
- Emigration & Immigration, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812153
- Publish Date
- Dec 2005
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812160
- Publish Date
- Jul 2006
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774841542
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Jonathan Wagner considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants. He examines the German context as closely as developments in Canada, offering a new, more complete approach to German-Canadian immigration.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Jonathan Wagner teaches in the Department of History at Minot State University.
Editorial Reviews
Wagner’s book provides a valuable case study, tying together not only basic push and pull factors, but also the responses of governments to the challenges of migration during the rapid urbanization and industrialization of Germany and the massive task of settling the Canadian Prairies ... it is a valuable study of the political, social, and technological processes facilitating migration in an international context that will be useful for future research in the field of migration history.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. XXXVIII, no. 1